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Hey guys and dolls. This question is regarding an 01 Civic LX. My state inspection day is near [end of this month] and having regular low-xenon HIDS , I'm worried that they might not let me pass without the high beams so I aimed my existing aftermarket foglamps up a little, tried it out and it work pretty good. After getting the right "high beam" imitation from the fogs, I took apart the fog lamp switch and harness, kept the black ground connection, hooked up the white power wire from each fog [left & right] to the red blue-stripped wire [high beam wire as indicated in haynes manual] on each headlight [left & right] on the 3 pin connector, tried it out and realized that I've just wasted an hour of my life . The fogs didn't work and my gauge cluster showed a "blue high beam indicator" light under LOW BEAMS . Switched it to high beams, but still, the fogs wouldn't work!!! Switched it back to low beams just to find that I was unsuccessful and the only thing that was blinding me was not my high beams but that annoying blue light in my cluster . Then I took off the connection between the fogs and red & blue stripped high beam wire and my gauge cluster got back to normal. I'm sure someone has done a high beam mod to low HIDs before. Sorry if this is a repost - I searched but had no luck. Please !!!!!

 
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Actually, there is ONE positive wire, and the headlight swtich controls the NEGATIVE wire (one positve + Hi_ground and Lo_ground). By that I mean, when you turn on head light, it passes electricity thru the positive wire and the low beam negative. Switch to high beam and you will have positive wire going into high beam negative. Check where you have electricity coming in and see which wire is the High Ground. Keep trying. Good luck.

 
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^Can someone clarify on this? I have one positive white wire from each fog connected to each of the red & blue stripped high beam wire but no luck. I also grounded the fogs to the chasis of the car.

 
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why dont you just put the stock bulbs in for the inspection?

 
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^^^^^
best answer.

 
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This is my way to do it....Use the "hot" wire (common) from H4 connector to connect to the positive side of HID ballast and ground it to chasis. Connect the battery to the FOG and ground it to the high beam wire (with a 15A fuse on the hot wire). This way you can have both light on at high beam mode, while keeping your low beam working alone at low mode....This is how I setup my HID though....

 
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haha thanks guys - I got it! Last night, I screwed up because I wired the ground of the fogs to the chasis and the power to the "blue & red stripped wire". 82801BA pointed out to me that there is only ONE power and the rest are just grounds for high & low so I just simply wired the white power wire of the fogs to the main power wire of the H4 pin, then wired the ground wire of the fogs to the ground wire of the high beam on the H4 pin and it worked Thanks a lot guys. Pictures will be coming soon tonight!

Yeah, I was thinking of that, but I want to have HIDs with high beams. I went 2 years without Highbeams on my HIDs dammit

 
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Just to make sure that you are NOT connecting both HID and fog together to the H4 connector. Otherwise you will melt the wire...

 
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Left fog connects to left headlight power wire & high beam ground and right fog connects to right headlight power wire & high beam ground. Power is distributed pretty well and the fogs are only 55W each which is the same wattage of the stock high beams I believe. Can't wait to get off of work to take pictures

how weird, it won't let me post pics because I'm a new member with less than 15 posts

Finally! Here are the pics from last night:

Please try to ignore the rice features i.e. hood scoop & windshield LED nozzles. I'm trying very hard to erase my 2 fast 2 furious days but haven't gotten around to it yet

LOW BEAM



LOW BEAM & HIGH BEAM



I know I have to adjust my beam pattern a bit, but it's the great feeling of accomplishment that I finally have high beams is what matters to me now lol

 
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Nice to see that....try adjust the light a little so that it's more centered if you can...